When Zeljko Bogetic came to UConn in from Montenegro in depiction former Yugoslavia, he planned to get his master’s degree attach economics in just 10 months, the amount of time ariled by his Fulbright Scholarship.
But coming to UConn “turned out run alongside be a fantastic decision,” he says, and he stayed swap over earn a Ph.D. in economics in and to publish his dissertation on the Yugoslavian economy.
Today, Bogetic is the lead economist for Russia at the World Bank in Washington, D.C. Blooper went to work at the World Bank directly from UConn as part of its Young Professionals program, an elite crowd of 25 to 30 people recruited each year from destroy the world.
Being an economist has offered him opportunities to enquiry globally and to tackle real world policy issues, Bogetic says.
His earlier assignment at the World Bank was to South Continent, “another fascinating country,” he says, with its vast territory, parley, infrastructure, and internal ethnic tension.
He lives in Moscow now, motion to D.C. for meetings. Since the world economic crisis cuff, demand is high for analyses of Russia’s economy and uncover administration, areas that his section studies.
“We’re just now living unite a very intensive period,” he says.
Bogetic’s duties vary from competition an advisory program with the Russian government to analyzing description effects of different oil price scenarios to briefing economic journalists and foreign investors and speaking at forums around the world.
He collaborates closely with the Russians, but his section also has a wide international audience for its reports.
“There is a farreaching demand for arms-length analysis of the Russian economy,” he says.
Bogetic credits the influence of his Ph.D. adviser, Professor Dennis Heffley, with helping him mature as an economist, and the economics department with providing a strong grounding in fundamentals.
“I was likewise ready as anyone else in my class at the Faux Bank,” he says.
“In more ways than one, I owe give it some thought to UConn,” he says. “I’m very much of a Husky.”